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This is probably a hatch job, but it’s the best I could come up with. Once I found the comment-content div in the functions file, I copied the entire meta footer code and placed a copy beneath that div. And then I removed one small little bit of PHP within the printf function. But there is still remnant code that doesn’t need to be there. I’m just not sure what I can safely remove.

So now the comment author prints first, followed by their comment, followed by the comment date/time line. I’d love some input on how to clean this up, though:

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I think I have this figured out. I copied the entire meta footer and placed it beneath the comment-content div in the functions file. And now I just need to remove bits and pieces without causing any errors. I’ll post back once it’s done.

Awesome, Voodoo. This is something I never would have considered. You are absolutely right. This makes a lot of sense. Since I do plan on developing some blogs loosely based on my current blog’s design, creating my own plugins would be a great, great tool. For example, my comments will always be displayed in the same way, since this is a very personal design preference that I intend to replicate across all of my websites. But other things will be more unique to each design, and therefore there’s no need to create a plugin. This is just awesome.

And quickly (well, hopefully) … if you reading this, the last thing I need to do for my comments is move the date line for each comment below the comment text. I was able to successfully break the date line onto a new line and then right-align. But I am totally confounded as to how to accomplish what should be a fairly simple task. Any suggestions?

I’ll share a link to my blog once it’s up and running this Sunday, so you can see what I’ve done.

Thanks!

Very, very helpful. Thank you so much! Now I can just do these changes in my child functions file, which is much cleaner.

About breaking the time and date onto a new line, I added display: block to the css for time and it worked. ??

Thanks, again. The functions file is something I’ve tried avoiding, but obviously I’m at a point where I could defeat the purpose of having a child theme if I’m not consistently doing this will all of my files.

Ugh, yes. My mistake in making this unclear. The first section of code I pasted into my OP was to show my existing child functions file. I needed to add the second section of code to that file, but couldn’t figure out which part to paste into it without getting an error message.

It’s the comment information I’m needing to modify … removing the link, etc. That’s easy enough. But I don’t know which part to paste into the child file. And I also can’t figure out how to place the date and time stamp underneath the comment author.

Sorry for the confusion.

Thank you. What I’m also wanting to modify is the date and time stamp. How do I move the date and time stamp to the line beneath the comment author? That really perplexes me.

To save you some time, please know that I have already researched this in the forum. But there’s something I’m not quite understanding to make this happen correctly. I did go ahead and make my changes to the parent functions.php file. And it works. But I want to do this properly and put my changes in the child file instead. Thanks!

Good morning, everyone!

I sure would love some help with this.

Thank you, kindly.

Thanks, Amy. It looks like a useful tool, although not many people have downloaded it. Probably because few know about that plugin.

I’m really hoping to learn some good tips with settings (either in an image editor and/or with CSS) that will help with this problem. But I’ll try the plugin you suggested.

Have a great day!

I have the original files, but I have made lots of changes to the child version of content.php. Also, I believe functions.php might have something to do with this. So I don’t feel that’s an option.

This should be able to be addressed with some simple CSS and div wraps or span tags. But I’ve tried everything I can think of and really welcome input on how to best accomplish this.

Thanks.

This is crazy. Just for fun I put the code for displaying my comments count above the start of the entry-header class, and guess what? My comments link now displays inline with my post titles.

But why? This isn’t clean code, right? When I first downloaded Twenty Eleven, I removed the comment bubble and placed the comments link at the bottom of my posts. But I want it back next to the post title.

Ugh. Please … can someone help me understand this? Here’s the content.php code:

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I misunderstood. The miscellaneous category says almost anything goes. I really thought that if my question has something to do with my website, then I can post here.

Just in case it helps someone else, I wanted to post back here and let anyone reading this know that I fixed the browser incompatibility problem. The navigation links at the top of my website (they run horizontally on one line) broke into a second line in non-Firefox browsers. The problem was that I had wrapped each link in a div. By converting everything to a list using “ul” and “li” and then assigning a class to the first link so that it sits flush left, the problem was fixed.

Happy day!!!

After addressing the p and p1 problem I now have just 3 errors and 3 warnings, and they are all associated with my Wicket Twitter Plugin and probably can’t be fixed.

About the break in my navigation bar at the top of my website, I’m thinking it has to do with the fact that I’ve wrapped each link inside a div instead of using ul and li. I’m not exactly sure how to do this, but I’ve been reading some tutorials and will experiment.

Thanks!!

P.S. I filled out your contact form via the volunteer link. If you don’t receive my message, please post back here. I couldn’t find any other way to contact you. Thank you!!